A N N U A L REPORT
OF T H E T O W N O F F I C E R S O F T H E
Town of Camden
FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR
ENDING MAR. 1, 1 9 2 4
CAMDEN HERALD PRINT
CAMDEN, MAINE
2
TOWN OFFICERS
Town Clerk
JOHN L. TEWKSBURY
Deputy Clerk
EVELYN M. TEWKSBURY
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor
GEORGE T. HODGMAN
CARL H. HOPKINS
GEO. E. BOYNTON
Treasurer
J. HALE HODGMAN
Collector of Taxes
FRANK P. ALEXANDER
Highway Commissioner
FRED T. HEAL
Auditor
JOHN L. TEWKSBURY
Supt. of Schools
CHARLES E. LORD
School Committee
GEO. H. THOMAS, Chairman, term expires 1924
MARY C. AMES, term expires
1925
RALPH H. HAYDEN, term expires
1926
3
Trustees of Public Library
J. HALE HODGMAN, term expires
MRS. E. E. BOYNTON, term expires
JOSHIAH H. HOBBS, term expires
EMMA DICKENS term expires
FRANCES PORTER, term expires
EMMA S. ALDEN, term expires
GEORGIA HOBBS, term expires
REUEL ROBINSON, term expires
RALPH H. HAYDEN, term expires
1924
1924
1924
1925
1925
1925
1926
1926
1926
Fire Wards
ALBERT H. PARSONS
GEORGE W. PRESCOTT
HERBERT W. THOMAS
Health Officer
DR. JAMES G. HUTCHINS
Examiner of Blind
DR. J F. NORWOOD
Harbor Master
CHARLES L. HERRICK
Port Warden
DAVID AREY
Measurers of Wood and Timber
JOSHIAH H. HOBBS
PEARL G. WILLEY
Weighers
P. G. WILLEY B. E. FLETCHER W. C. STOVER
G. H. THOMAS
W. O. STAPLES
Sealer of Weights and Measures
L. B. ROSS
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Building Inspector
J. C. FISH
Plumbing Inspector
OSCAR P. CHAPIN
Asst. Inspector
LESTER O. GROSS
Foreman Fire Department
JOHN S. GOULD
Asst. Foreman Fire Department
CHARLES C. DAILEY
Constables
WILDER S. IRISH
GEORGE W. PRESCOTT
WASH. W. PRESCOTT
IRAL SMITH
W. S. DYER
EDWIN GOODWIN
H. W. LIBBY
J. C. FISH
LEROY SNOWDEAL
H. A. SYLVESTER
BENJ. POOLEY
JOSEPH REED
A. E. THOMAS
F. G. NORTON
ALLEN PAYSON
General Committee
J. Hale Hodgman, Oscar H. Emery, C. O. Montgomery, Evelyn M. Tewksbury, Eugene G. Young,
W. F. Bisbee, Josiah H. Hobbs, Charles E. Lord,
C. Kendall Hopkins, Carl H. Hopkins Zelma M.
Dwinal, Mary C. Ames, John Bird, Ralph H.
Hayden, Thomas E. Gushee, Harold Nash, C.
Wilkes Babb, Charles C. Wood, George H. Hodgman, George E. Boynton.
5
ASSESSORS' REPORT
Real estate, resident
Real estate, non-resident
$1,816,565 00
782,034 00
Total real estate
Personal estate, resident
Personal estate, non-resident
$2,598,599 00
$491,285 00
38,000 00
Total personal estate
Total value of land
Total value buildings
$529,285 00
$817,125 00
1,781,474 00
$2,598,599 00
$3,127,884 00
Total land and buildings
Total valuation
Personal Estate
Horses and Mules
Colts, 3 to 4 yrs. old
Cows
Oxen
Three yrs. old
Two yrs. old
Total
No.
157
3
194
5
7
15
Aves. Value Total
$81 88
$12,855
53 33 1-3
160
35 00
6,790
50 00
250
28 57 1-2
200
22 33 1-3
335
$20,590
6
Exempt Live Stock
One yr. old
Sheep to 35 in No.
Swine to 10 in No.
No.
25
36
15
Ave. Value Total
$12 50
$313 50
4 00
144 00
10 00
150 00
Total
Railroad stock
Other compaiies stock
Other companies stock
Stock in trade
Small boats
Logs, 100m
Timber, 160m
Carriages 26
Automobiles, 360
Musical Instruments 454
Furniture
Finished products in milk
Materials in stock
Machinery not taxed as real estate
Other property
$607
$16,500
1,500
1,500
151,850
19,160
700
1,280
425
128,800
42,045
1,250
16,000
109,300
6,500
13,385
50
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
Amount
Amount live stock brought forward
$508,695 00
20,590 00
Street railroad companies property
Water company's property
Woolen mills
Other mills, grist
Wharf property
$529,285
$15,350
1,050
222,850
6,200
65,500
00
00
00
00
00
00
7
Value of property exempted by vote
of town and not included in valuation 19,000 00
Value of property exempted by assessors
and not included in valuation
3,400 00
Old soldiers property exempt by state
law
21,300 00
Taxation
Appropriations
State tax
County tax
Overlay in assessing
Supplementary tax
$90,356
22,482
7,650
1,776
187
30
01
24
04
85
Total residence tax
Total non-resident tax
Poll taxes
Supplementary
$87,698
31,161
3,405
187
30
29
00
85
$122,452
$122,452 44
Rate of taxation $38.00 per thousand
valuation.
dollars
of
Respectfully submitted
G. T. HODGMAN
CARL H. HOPKINS
GEORGE E. BOYNTON
Assessors of town of Camden
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REPORT OF SELECTMEN
Road and Bridge Acct.
Achorn, Willis
Alexander, F. P.
Am. Ry. Express Co.
Annis, Wm.
Annis, E. P.
Am. Oil Products
Alexander, F. P.
Brown, Ralph
Berger Mfg. Co.
Bowden, Gerald
Bickford, Fred
Buffalo-Spring Roller Co.
Brown, J. A.
Barrett, Wm. Estate
Blake, W. F.
Blake, L. C.
Bean, John
Barns, A. A.
Barns, C. W.
Bean, Herbert
Brown, Hollis
Beverage, H. E.
Brown, Willard
Baird, Stephen
Beverage, W. F.
Bowden, Stephen
$248
10
12
279
2
4,601
127
127
348
3
40
48
17
34
14
262
199
318
25
215
217
134
78
44
3
33
76
00
17
92
00
82
49
50
00
50
31
75
50
45
00
44
07
00
38
04
01
47
97
62
50
40
9
Bay View Garage
Brown & Hobbs
Camden Y. B. & Ry. Co.
Central Maine Power Co.
Camden Rockland Water Co.
Curtis, J. C. Inc.
Cotton, Henry
Cotton, W. L.
Cleveland, Lena
Camden-Anchor Rockland Machine Co.
Camden & Rockland Exp. Co.
Cooper & Co.
Camden Lumber Co.
Carle, Robert
Dyer, Vinal
Dean, Albert
Dyer, J. H.
Dow, Wallace
Dean, Elmer
Dyer, E. F.
Drinkwater, Hollis
Dunning, R. B. & Co.
Day, F. W.
Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc.
Eaton, Maynard
Eaton, Winslow
Fuller, 0 . P.
Fernald, Roscoe
Farnsworth, Fred
Foster, Arthur
Gushee, T. E.
Gray, A. N.
Gray, Robie
Gray, Henry
410
470
1
65
36
119
203
3
5
36
2
456
101
8
54
54
26
766
38
136
276
325
36
136
82
2
344
526
146
8
119
8
208
170
72
74
30
45
03
04
50
50
25
27
00
40
80
35
47
25
41
61
50
94
50
50
00
46
91
63
18
08
57
32
25
78
12
84
10
Gross, John
Glover, W. H. & Co.
Grinnell, Arthur
Grant, Geo.
Goods Roads Mach. Co.
Gerrish, A. E.
Heal, Fred T.
Heal, Guy
Hartford, Chas.
Hodgman & Co.
Hunt, Frank
Herington, Geo.
Hansell, Will
Howe, W. C.
Howe, Oscar
Hopkins, N. B.
Ingraham, Mark W.
Knowlton, Martin
Knowlton Bros.
Kirk, W. A.
Livingston Mfg. Co.
Libby, Edward
Myrick, Chas.
Manning, Chas.
Monroe, A. S.
Marshall, H. T.
Milliken, Amos
Marine Supply Co.
Marshall, E. L.
Monroe, W. J.
New. Eng. Road Mach. Co.
Nash, Harold
Ovenberg Ditch & Grader Co.
Pomeroy, Fred
310
36
41
3
662
2
14
310
366
14
2
4
3
9
213
31
126
234
52
9
7
20
350
230
198
167
3
16
90
5
254
12
2
1
63
00
30
50
00
50
50
14
11
50
63
25
00
40
50
50
98
28
17
75
81
00
63
60
19
50
50
94
00
69
10
53
65
75
11
Pendleton, Ephriam
Padham, Wm.
Palmer, Seneca
Pitcher, Willis
Pooley, Chester
Prescott, Geo.
Pendleton, M. L.
Rollins, Dellan
Robinson, John
Rockland Rockport Lime Co.
Robbins, 0. S.
Rockland Savings Bank
State of Maine
Steamer Castine
Sylvester, Harry
Sleeper, David
Snow Marine Co.
Smith, A.
Snow, I. L.
Torrey, M. B.
Turner, Stanton
Torrey, Ralph
Town Team
Town Truck
Thorndike, Geo.
Thomas, A. E.
Texas Co.
Upham, Wm.
Upham, Dexter
Welch, H.
Woster, Chas.
Walsh, Hiram
Willey, P. G. & Co.
Wood, C. E.
15
54
31
627
85
307
240
349
2
84
70
210
519
2
124
70
74
10
32
12
56
180
626
564
151
275
96
251
45
554
158
175
247
32
00
05
88
82
63
13
85
85
20
27
50
50
00
00
50
25
00
50
14
25
44
89
90
00
61
11
08
63
00
14
82
30
39
07
12
Warren, Frank
Wentworth, Lisle
Wasgatt, Geo.
Wisconsin Motor Co.
Wright, L. B.
Young, Nelson
Young, Wilbur
Young, Parker
Young, W. P.
15
42
70
213
71
321
2
8
34
75
88
44
60
75
67
50
00
75
Total
$23,769
30 gallons oil on hand March 12, 1923
$21
50 gallons gas on hand March 12, 1923
12
6 Bbls. calcium chloride on hand
52
63 Bbls. Asphalt on hand
378
37
00
00
80
00
Total
Credit
By appropriation
J. E. Dailey
State of Maine Patrolled Rds.
State of Maine use steam roller
Oil barrels sold
G. H. Patterson, crushed stone
C. K. Hopkins, crushed stone
Otto Nelson, crushed stone
Ralph Mairs, chloride
Leon Crockett, chloride
City of Rockland, use steam roller
F L. Kennedy, crushed stone
W. F. Hart, repairing drive
A. B. Outhouse
98 Bbls. heavy ashphalt on hand
22 Bbls. light ashphalt on hand
$24,233 17
$19,700 00
10
779
182
19
16
38
21
2
20
17
25
9
882
176
00
81
50
00
75
70
00
75
50
00
92
92
60
00
00
13
55 Bbls. road oil on hand
3 Bbls. calcium chloride on hand
Overdraft
579 18
21 93
1,729 61
$24,233 17
Total
Snow Account
Annis, E P.
Annis, W. A.
Arey, Harold
Batchelder, L. R.
Brown, Ralph
Brown, Hollis
Barnes, A. A.
Bagley, Edw.
Barker, W. H.
Blake, M. I.
Cotton, Henry
Cotton, W. L.
Collemer, Harry
Dean, James H.
Dyer, E. F.
Dyer, S. A.
Dyer, Vinal
Dyer, James A.
Dow, Wallace
Fuller, 0 . P.
Fernald, Roscoe
Fish, John
Gray, Chas.
Gray, J. C.
Grey, Robie
Gross, John
Gray, Alfred
$18
11
9
7
37
7
21
3
9
11
3
1
6
4
7
4
1
12
59
10
6
69
6
29
6
2
25
63
00
87
00
50
76
00
25
00
25
75
12
93
50
88
87
50
69
16
50
75
67
75
88
00
63
14
Horton, E. L.
Heal, Fred
Howe, Oscar
Hosmer, Arthur
Huntley, Archie
Hanson, Fred
Heal, Guy
Hartford, Chas.
Ingraham, Chas.
Keene, M. L.
Logan, Archie
Lermond, Fred
Munroe, B. H.
McDonald, John
Marshall, Arthur
Manchester, E. N.
Nash, Chas. E.
Ogier, Sam
Ogier, Fred
Palmer, Seneca
Pomeroy, Seth
Pendleton, Clarence
Prescott, Geo.
Robinson, Ed.
Rossiter, E. A.
Rossiter, W. H.
Satterlee, Ralph
Torrey, Ralph
Thomas, A. E.
Town Truck
Town Team
Trask, Fred
Upham, Frank
Upham, Eric
1
16
6
2
2
16
4
15
6
20
4
30
7
1
9
4
4
23
18
2
8
1
7
4
1
1
4
4
6
15
179
4
6
1
12
72
00
62
25
50
87
00
00
50
50
00
50
50
00
50
87
63
19
25
25
12
50
50
87
87
50
69
00
00
75
13
94
50
15
Upham, Dexter
Wooster, Chas.
Welch, H.
Young, W. P.
Young, Nelson
Young, Guy
Alexander, F. P.
Bryant, W. A.
Brickett, L. W.
Brown, Harry
Burridge, Clinton
Burridge, Joe
Burridge, Otis
Capen, Wm.
Currier, R. W.
Colburn, Duncan
Carroll, Lawrence
Eaton, Maynard
Fogg, Joe
Gray, Fred
Hall, Warren
Hall, Wm.
Hunt, Roy
Metcalf, Wm.
Manning, Chas.
Nash, Frank
Ryan, Edward
Rollins, Dellan
Robbins, 0. R.
Tibbetts, Hosea
Towne, E. H.
Thompson, J. C.
Wilson, Joe
Wescott, W. S.
2
3
116
4
3
6
44
4
7
10
8
10
10
4
7
5
9
8
10
7
1
3
3
7
1
8
10
14
4
14
3
2
20
25
75
31
50
00
00
01
60
00
50
10
50
50
SI
00
25
S4
53
50
00
05
50
50
00
50
60
54
50
00
60
00
50
40
13
16
Young, W i l b u r
Young, J a c k
4 16
8 53
Total
By appropriation
By received from C. M. Power Co.
Overdrawn
$1,207
800
36
371
69
00
00
69
$1,207 69
Street Sprinkling
Am. Oil Products Co.
Alexander, F. P.
Carleton, Wm.
Parsons, A. H.
Town team
Unexpended
Total
Appropriation
$215
4
3
1
86
88
$400
$400
58
62
50
21
62
47
00
00
$1
144
52
10
104
279
268
59
03
72
50
56
23
00
42
34
25
50
00
19
Sidewalks
Alexander, F. P.
Bryant, W. E.
Beverage, H. E.
Brown, Ralph
Brown & Hobbs
Camden Lumber Co.
Camden National Bank
Curtis, J. C , Inc.
Drinkwater, Hollis
Fuller, O. P.
Fish, J. C.
Gould, J. W.
Gregory, Fred
21
46
22
4
2
17
Gilkey, E. F.
Gray, Robie
Gray, H. L.
Gross, L. 0.
Hansell, Will
Hopkins, N. B.
Knowlton, Martin
Knowlton, Bros.
Manning, Chas.
Marshall, H. T.
Mansfield, E. E.
Marshall, E. L.
Prescott, Geo.
Pendleton, M. L.
Payson, Maynard
Rockport, Town of
Ritterbush, S. G.
Sylvester, Harry
Sleeper, David
Town team
Town truck
Torrey, M. B.
Thompson, Eugene
Tolman, Andrew
Upham, Wm.
Willey, P. G. & Co.
Welsh, H.
Unexpended
Total
17
61
20
103
22
52
7
6
5
140
14
26
9
33
4
48
39
15
17
36
8
45
101
20
9
203
7
37
$2,069
50
47
00
43
50
50
00
00
00
00
22
00
63.
25
00
00
58
75
50
75
00
07
32
00
63
83
00
50
77
$2,000
55
13
$2,069
00
78
99
77
Cr.
By appropriation
C. 0. Montgomery
Viola D. Richards
Total
18
Outstanding Bills
Annis, William
Aliens Market
Ames, Fred
Alexander, F. P.
Blake, M. J.
Brown, J. A.
Barnes, A. A.
Blake, L. C.
Blanchard, Housed
Bryant, A. L.
Camden Lumber Co.
Cotton, Henry
Central Maine Power Co.
Cotton, W. L.
Dyer, Augusta
Dyer, Vinal
Dyer, J. H.
Frye, F. P.
Fernald, Roscoe
Fuller, 0 . P.
Fish, Jo4hn
Gould, Herbert
Greenlaw, Grace
Hartford, Chas.
Brown & Hobbs
Halford, P. M.
Hawes, W. C.
Hanson, F. A.
Hammond, Richard
Howe, Oscar
Horton, E. L.
Josslyn, Horace
Johnson, E. C.
$8
2
1
43
7
12
10
13
7
3
1
7
1
7
11
11
7
3
6
4
32
25
9
3
17
48
39
2
24
8
9
2
25
69
25
41
26
00
50
50
50
65
79
50
40
50
50
25
25
50
38
00
12
00
00
00
00
44
04
17
50
00
96
00
25
19
Knox County Hospital
Libby, F. P.
McDonald, John
Mills, Wilbur
Martin, Mrs. Helen
Ordway, Albee
Pendleton, Jas.
Pomeroy, Seth
Packard, L. C.
Parson, A. H.
Renouf, H. C.
Rollins, Dellan
Rockland Savings Bank
Smith, Chas.
Steward, C. W.
State of Maine
Tiffany, L. A.
Upham, Eugene
Welch, H.
Wescott, W. S.
Whynot, Hiram
68
25
1
6
2
30
6
3
2
212
34
1
9
5
3
878
13
2
19
3
2
79
60
69
00
00
00
76
00
25
81
06
50
00
06
00
93
13
24
88
38
62
$1,724 26
$500 00
1,224 26
Total
By appropriation
Overdrawn
$1,724 26
Support of Poor
Bryant, Mrs. A. L., support of self
$120 00
Bisbee, W. F., Fred Day
30 00
Burd, Geo. Shoe Co., supplies Chas. Feyler
8 40
Clark, E. B., supplies
50
City of Rockland, care of Chas. Mclntyre
324 58
20
Camden Farmers Union, supplies Fred Day 48 55
4 00
Douglas, A. N.
94 00
Demuth, F. D., care Chas. Feyler
7 31
Dickey, M. F.
37 50
Frye, F. P., rent Mrs. Thomas
2 00
Foster, Arthur, rent Mrs. Thomas
100 00
Greenlaw, Grace, care Mrs. Plummer
86 00
Gushee, T. E., rent Susan Hatch
364 00
Hardy, A. J., care H. Boomer
20 00
Hobbs, J. H., suppleis Geo. Cameron
58 45
Hooper, Harry, supplies, Susan Hatch
8 00
Hills, J. C.
23 00
Hodgman & Co., supplies Chas. Feyler
80 50
Logan, Archibald, care Chas. Feyler
120 00
Libby, F. P., board Chas. Feyler
6 00
Main St. Garage, conveyance Mrs. Plummer
66
60 66
Maine Children's Home, care Arthur Rollinsi 60
Maine Children's Home, care Diplock
249 56
children
70 00
Moody, Edna, care of Mrs. Plummer
24
77
McAuliffe, J. F., supplies Geo. Cameron
12
73
Clark, E. M., supplies Geo. Cameron
15
00
Camden Lumber Co., supplies Fred Day
Norwood, J. F. (M. D.,) medical attention
Susan Hatch
36 00
Norwood, J. F. (M. D.,) medical attention
Beverage
5 00
Pearse, C. M., supplies Susan Hatch
43 00
Pearse, C. M., supplies Fred Day
14 00
Pearse, Frank, conveyance Mrs. Thorns
10 00
Prince, A. S., supplies Chas. Feyler
4 50
Parsons, A. H., supplies, Geo. Cameron
3 00
Renouf, H. C, supplies Geo. Cameron
73 67
Simpson, F. T., supplies Mrs. Thomas and
21
Geo. Cameron
State of Maine, care of Rand children
Adella Thomas, care self
Towle, Mrs. A. A., care of Mrs. Plummer
Willey, P. G. & Co., supplies Susan Hatch
Whynot, Hiram, rent Chas. Myrick
Wentworth, A. M., board Chas. Feyler
Wilson, E. F., supplies Geo. Cameron
Total
By appropriation
Received from John Dolan
Overdrawn
110
136
25
98
31
12
36
5
57
24
66
00
52
00
40
99
$2,621
$2,200
9
411
06
00
39
67
$2,621 06
Town of Islesboro
To Fred Mclntyre, board Raphael Hunt;
$25 67
By received from town of Islesboro
$25 67
Third Class Highway
Annis, G. B.
Annis, Wm.
Bean, H.
Barns, A. A.
Bean, John
Cotton, Henry
Cotton, Wm.
Hartford, Chas.
Keene, M. L.
Pendleton, M. L.
Pitcher, Willis
Torrey, Ralph
$42
85
17
54
17
23
21
7
103
45
94
10
00
75
50
50
50
20
00
00
87
50
50
50
22
Thompson, Eugene
Town team
Upham, Wm.
Upham, Dexter
Woster, C. M.
3
10
7
17
26
Total
Received from State of Maine
Overdrawn
Total
50
50
00
75
25
$587 82
$567 71
20 11
$587 82
Rawson Ave.
Annis, Wm.
Bean, John
Brown, Hollis
Bean, H.
Blake, L. C.
Cotton, Henry
Fernald, Roscoe
Hartford, Chas.
Gross, John
Knowlton, Martin
Monroe, A.
Prescott, Geo.
Padham, Wm.
Sleeper, David
Toney, Ralph
Town team
Thomas, A. E.
Upham, Dexter
Upham, Wm.
Total
$35
8
14
8
35
14
28
35
28
14
17
35
12
14
14
42
49
25
35
00
75
00
75
00
00
00
00
00
00
50
00
25
00
00
00
00
00
00
$464 25
23
By appropriation
Overdrawn
$400 00
64 25
$464 25
Total
State Aid Road
Brown & Hobbs
Brown, Ralph
Barns, A. A.
Blake, L. C.
Brown, Hollis
Beverage, H.
Bean, H.
Bean, John
Cotton, H.
Cooper & Co.
Camden Lumber Co.
Fernald, Roscoe
Farnsworth, F r e d
Gross, John
Gray, Robie
Gribbel, John
Hartford, Chas.
Heal, Guy
Heal, A. T.
Hopkins, N. B.
Ingraham, M a r k
Knowlton, Martin
Monroe, A.
Monroe, W. J.
Marshall, E. L.
Prescott, Geo.
Padham, W m .
Rollins, A.
Sleeper, David
$26
5
39
175
7
85
61
61
34
140
49
171
80
164
87
127
157
119
44
7
14
14
85
6
3
171
78
82
22
84
25
00
00
00
75
25
25
14
40
20
50
50
50
50
00
50
00
25
00
65
00
75
90
12
50
75
25
75
24
Town truck
Thomas, A. E.
Town team
Upham, Wm.
Wasgatt, Geo.
Welsh, H.
Willey, P. G. & Co.
Young, Nelson
Total
By appropriation
Received from State
Overdrawn
120
171
52
157
85
106
11
134
00
50
50
50
75
72
79
00
$2,963
$1,333
1,318
312
26
00
16
10
$2,963 26
Incidental Acct.
Ames, Arthur P., ballot clerk
Adams, S. G.
American Ry. Ex. Co.
Alexander, F. P.
Allen, G. E.
Alexander, F. P., abatements
Bartlett, M. E., supplies
Barnes, A. A., watering trough
Boynton, G. E.
Boynton Pharmacy, supplies
Camden Anchor-Rockland Mch. Co.
Camden Pub. Co., printing
Coose, Aubrey, keys
Central Maine Power Co.
Curtis, J. C. Inc., supplies
Carleton Pascal Co., supplies
Chandler, L. M., supplies
$4
5
4
160
29
1,737
9
3
2
5
41
261
1
68
24
43
69
00
17
00
94
50
04
75
00
00
75
52
60
00
12
63
62
00
25
Dwinal, Z. M., moderator and legal services 12 50
Dwinal, Harriet, ballot clerk
4 00
Farmers Union, supplies
1 00
Fish, J. C, constable
12 00
Gurley, W. & S. E.
2 56
Gray, Cornelius
4 75
Good, P. J., burial soldiers
300 00
Green, A. F., M. D.
9 50
Goodwin, E. C , constable
20 75
Hopkins, Geo. A., truant officer
20 00
Heal, Fred
4 00
Hobbs, J. H., horse sled
50 00
Heal, Guy
12 25
Howe, W. C.
75
Hills, Myrtle, clerical work
93 37
Hodgman, J. H.
9 00
Howe, H. M., water trough
3 00
Heald, W. D.
6 50
Hutchins, J. G., M. D.
141 00
11 25
Hammond, Richard, milk inspector
Irish, W. S., Sunday duty
68 50
Ingraham, M. W., supplies
5 90
Johnson, John, ballot clerk
4 00
4 00
Knowlton, Alice H., ballot clerk
Loring, Short & Harmon
73 75
Leach, John, ballot clerk
4 00
Libby, H. W., constable services
10 00
Lebanon Machine Co.
27 00
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
35 61
12 50
National Surety Co.
Norwood, J. F., M. D.
1 25
Ogier, Emma
6 98
Paine, G. E.
16 04
4 00
Packard, F. A.
26
Pomeroy, Fred R.
Prince, A. S.
Paul, J. J., ballot clerk
Packard, L. C.
Prescott, G. W., constable
Parsons, A. H., supplies
Portland Directory Co.
Ritterbush, Laura, ballot clerk
Ross, L. B., sealer weights and measures
Reed, Joseph, constable
Russell, B. W.
Reed, Joseph
Ritterbush, S. G.
Robinson, Reuel
Spear, Wm„
Simpson, F. T., supplies
Snowdeal, Leroy, constable
Smith, Ira L., constable
Sylvester, H. A., constable
Torrey, Margaret, ballot clerk
Tyler, Alice, ballot clerk
Thompson, J. C,
Village Shop, supplies
Town of Camden, rent
Wood, Inez, ballot clerk
Wilbur, F. H., school census
Willey, P. G. & Co.
Wilson Inc., burial soldiers
Wiley, F. J., ballot clerk
Wood, C. C. Mrs., ballot clerk
Wadsworth, C. D., ballot clerk
Weaver, C. G., truant officer
Young, E. M, town clock
42
7
4
11
6
46
4
8
17
2
10
17
27
1
10
29
15
24
15
8
8
10
10
250
4
78
5
100
8
4
4
20
47
00
00
00
00
00
34
00
00
85
00
50
00
00
24
00
80
00
00
00
00
00
50
20
00
00
70
73
00
00
00
00
00
00
27
Young, C. L.
4 18
Total
$4,322 39
Cr.
By appropration
Received from Sylvester Vansycle
Received from State of Maine
Received from licenses
Overlay in assessing
Supplementary t a x
Overdrawn
Total
^$700
10
400
43
1,776
187
1,205
00
00
00
00
04
85
50
$4,322 39
Street Lighting
Central Maine P o w e r Co.
By appropriation
Overdrawn
$3,312 30
3,101 40
210 90
$3,312 30
Public Libraray
Camden Public Library
By appropriation
Received from Mrs. W a d s w o r t h
$1,300 00
$1,200 00
100 00
$1,300 00
Geo. S. Cobb Post, G. A. R.
Mt. Pleasant Band
W. S. Irish
John Bird
G. F. Andrews
$45
16
3
1
00
86
00
00
28
Unexpended
34 14
$100 00
$100 00
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
Care Library Lot
G a r d e n Club
Town t e a m
$96 50
3 50
$100 00
$100 00
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
Mother 's Aid
City of Rockland, Mrs. Pendleton
May A. Richardson
$120 00
180 00
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
Received from State
$300 00
$210 00
90 00
$300 00
Opera House
Allen, Geo. E.
Bryant, Chas.
Brickett, L. W.
Brown & Hobbs
Bennett, N. H.
Central Maine P o w e r Co.
Camden Anchor-Rockl,and Machine Co.
Curtis, J. C , Inc.
C. Y. Bldg. Ry. Co.
Camden L u m b e r Co.
Chamberlain Metal Strip Co.
$220
60
65
69
1
167
522
190
18
96
18
96
46
19
25
21
50
78
95
71
00
29
Chapin, 0. P.
Dyer, W. S.
Gray, Cornelius
Hansen, S.
Hodgman, J. H., insurance
Hammond, Richard
Ingraham, Mark
Knox Woolen Co.
Hodgman, J. H., salary as manager
N. E. Decorating Co.
Payson, Allen
Parsons, A. H.
Prince, A. S.
Town team
Talbot Ins. Co.
Thompson, J. C.
Willey, P. G. & Co.
Young, E. G.
Young, C. L.
Alexander, F. P.
Towne, E. H.
Brown, Ralph
Unexpended
1
224
18
250
5
41
818
100
25
260
84
29
214
16
151
4
7
1
1
121
85
50
40
84
58
50
97
79
00
00
80
58
70
50
28
90
80
93
50
17
00
00
97
$3,795 75
Total
Credit
By rent Auditorium
By rent C. A. C.
By rent 1st floor
$930 00
560 00
2,305 75
$3,795 75
30
Officers Salaries
H o d g m a n , G. T., 1st selectman
$700
Hopkins, Carl H., 2nd selectman
400
Boynton, Geo. E., 3rd selectman
150
A l e x a n d e r , F. P., tax collector
1,125
Lord, Chas. E., Supt schools
640
Paine, Geo. E., Supt. schools
410
Tewksbury, J o h n L., town clerk a n d auditor
;or 102
H o d g m a n , J. Hale, t r e a s u r e r
300
Heal, F r e d T., h i g h w a y commissioner
1,200
Dwinal, Z. M., m o d e r a t o r
10
Irish, W i l d e r S., chief of police
547
Dyer, W m . S., chief of police
292
Payson, Allen, driver fire chemical
1,300
Herrick, C. J., h a r b o r master
25
H a m m o n d , Richard, milk inspector
25
Unexpended
21
00
00
00
00
00
00
95
00
00
00
50
85
00
00
00
70
$7,250 00
$7,250 00
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
Hydrants
Camden & Rockland W a t e r Co.
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
$1,715 00
$1,715 00
District Nurse
District nurse association
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
$300 00
$300 00
Care of Cemetery
C a m d e n Cemetery Association
By a p p r o p r i a t i o n
$300 00
$300 00
31
Spraying Trees
Robinson & Hall
By appropriation
$400 00
$400 00
Jacobs Ave. Sewer
By appropriation
Unexpended
$150 00
$150 00
bor
Removing Sewer Deposit in Harbor
Snow Marine Co.
Unexpended
By appropriation
$700 00
300 00
$1,000 00
$1,000 00
Frye St. Water Course
By appropriation
Unexpended
$300 00
$300 00
Expenses of Fire Dept.
Alexander, F. P.
American Ry. E x p r e s s Co.
Bennett, H.
Boston Woven Hose Co.
Camden Ycht. Bldg. Co.
Central Maine P o w e r Co.
Curtis, J. C. Inc.
Camden L u m b e r Co.
Camden Publishing Co.
Carleton Coupling Co.
Camden Rockland Mch. Co.
Gray, Cornelius
Gamewell Fire A l a r m Co.
51
03
00
50
86
79
52
03
00
05
30
8 00
26 13
$43
2
72
507
119
87
77
119
2
17
32
Howe, W. C.
Hodgman, J. H.
Hardy, J. M.
Heald, W. D.
Ingraham, Mark
Knowlton Bros.
Prescott, Geo.
Prince, A. S.
Payson Mfg. Co.
Payson, Allen
Parsons, A. H.
Ritterbush, S. G.
Robbins, O. S.
Rockland Coal Co.
R. & R. Lime Co.
Spear, Eliot N.
Stahl, Ralph
Town team
Tibbetts, R. W.
Town truck
Thompson, J. C.
Tibbetts, Frank N.
Willey, P. G. Co.
34
151
78
23
36
34
10
16
5
10
200
199
10
48
10
90
84
50
81
2
36
114
53
32
00
00
76
37
00
13
40
00
57
73
97
59
47
00
74
00
00
00
75
30
45
$2,411 80
Total
Pay of Firemen
Richards, W. S.
Bennett, H.
Gould, John
Dailey, Chas.
Thomas, Herbert
Thompson, Lovell
Young, Wilbur
$35
20
58
39
27
46
40
00
00
65
50
15
00
60
33
Fletcher, Bert
Conant, F. W.
Allenwood, Louis
Bridges, Grover
Blood, Louis
Bagley, Frank
Daucett, Laforest
Dunbar, Walter
Davis, Arthur
Dailey, John C.
Dyer, Wm.
Fish, J. C.
Fitzgerald, Wm.
Gray, Vernly
Hills, Dan
Hardy, A. J.
Hardy, Pearl
Herrick, F. B.
Herrick, C. P
• Hewett, W. S.
Luce, Percy
Manning, Chas.
Morse, H. W.
Mitchell, Clarence
Ogier, L. F.
Ordway, Guy
Paul, J. J.
Prescott, A. M.
Prescott, W. W.
Payson, Allen
Pooley, Ben
Prescott, Milton
Richards, Martin
Richards, E. E.
45
13
12
20
32
23
21
17
7
11
40
9
24
17
44
7
22
19
11
20
6
18
7
33
8
11
18
23
49
22
5
22
11
25
00
50
40
90
40
90
35
90
80
90
50
90
90
90
75
15
50
25
40
15
15
40
00
00
05
88
90
65
75
00
50
00
40
34
Richards, E. C.
Smith, Iral L.
Small, Greely
Thurston, Walter
Thompson, John C.
White, Cliff
Young, E. M.
Achorn, Wm.
11
6
1
1
27
28
12
40
90
25
50
75
25
65
50
Total pay of firemen
Sub total
$1,009 08
2,411 80
Total expense
By appropriation
Overdrawn
$3,420 88
$2,000 00
1,420 88
$3,420 88
Special Resolve—Turnpike
Brown & Hobbs
Beverage, W. F.
Bean, John
Brown, Willard
Blake, L. C.
Blake, W. F.
Curtis, J. C. Inc.
Camden Lumber Co.
Dyer, E. F.
Farnsworth, Fred
Gray, H. L.
Hartford, Chas.
Heal, Guy
Ingraham, Mark
Munroe, A.
$64
1
35
14
28
19
1
99
14
80
8
21
23
3
10
32
75
00
00
00
25
50
32
00
07
00
00
19
45
50
35
Prescott, Geo.
Sayward, J. H.
Sleeper, David
Torrey, Kalph
Town truck
Thomas, A. E.
Carried from 1921 acct.
Carried from 1922 acct.
Total
21
84
10
52
20
21
144
329
00
00
50
50
00
00
00
14
$1,105 69
Credit
By appropriation
Received from State
Overdrawn
$100 00
868 44
137 25
$1,105 69
Washington Street Sewer
Bickford, Fred
Beverage, H.
Brown & Hobbs
Camden Lumber Co.
Heal, Guy
Ritterbush, S. G.
Torrey, Ralph
Sleeper, David
Welch, H.
Unexpended
$14
31
1
462
45
38
29
25
4
00
07
00
00
07
50
32
38
40
$650 74
$1,311 26
$1,962 00
36
By appropriation
Pipe on hand
$1,500 00
462 00
$1,962 00
Town Truck
Anderson's Garage
Alexander, F. P.
Bay View Garage Co.
Curtis, J. C. Inc.
Camden Auto Sales Co.
Hodgman, J. H.
Howe, W. C.
Knox County Motor Sales Co.
Libby, M. A.
Parsons, A. H.
Thompson, Colburn
Veeder Mfg. Co.
$295
2
44
7
'6
34
10
682
1
3
462
15
84
76
39
79
47
13
35
80
13
26
00
61
$1,566 53
91 47
Unexpended
$1,658 00
Credit
Road and bridge Acct.
State aid road
Snow Acct.
Sidewalks
Special Resolve (Turnpike)
Fire Dept., 17 fires, 10 drills
$564
120
15
8
20
81
00
00
00
00
00
00
By appropriation
$808 00
850 00
$1,658 00
37
Town Team
Allen, Geo. E.
Brown, Jas.
Boynton's Pharmacy
Brown & Hobbs
Camden Farmer's Union
Curtis, J. C. Inc.
Camden Lumber & Fuel Co.
Chandler, L. M.
Carleton, Pascal & Co.
Fish, John
Hodgman, G. T.
Kellar, D. M.
Knox Woolen Co.
Kirk, W. A.
Lord, A. P.
Ordway, Guy
Pease, J. D.
Stevens, D. M. Dr.
Willey, P. G. & Co.
Wiley, F. G.
7
700
5
5
139
66
109
6
4
200
18
115
23
46
14
866
24
4
31
171
50
00
00
05
71
74
13
85
40
00
00
00
00
25
00
67
53
00
29
13
$2,558 25
Credit
Road and Bridge Acct.
Opera House (Hauling Coal)
Library Lot (cleaning)
Sprinkling streets
Rawson Ave.
Third class highway
State Aid Road
Sidewalks
$626
29
3
86
42
10
52
36
90
50
50
62
00
50
50
75
38
Snow Acct.
Fire Dept., 18 fires, 10 drills
179 75
84 00
$1,152 02
$850 00
556 23
By a p p r o p r a t i o n
.Overdrawn
$2,558 25
Summary
Accounts O v e r d r a w n
Road a n d Bridge
O u t s t a n d i n g bills
Third class h i g h w a y
Rawson Ave.
State aid road
Special r e s o l v e — t u r n p i k e
Fire Dept.
Town t e a m
Street lights
Snow
Poor Acct.
Incidentals
$1,729
1,224
20
64
312
137
1,420
556
210
371
411
1,205
61
26
11
25
10
25
80
23
90
69
67
50
$7,664 37
Accounts Unexpended
Street sprinkling
Sidewalks
Jacobs Ave. sewer
Removing sewer deposit
Frye St. water course
Town truck
$88
37
150
300
300
91
47
50
00
00
00
47
39
Washington street sewer
Geo. S. Cobb Post, G. A. R.
Opera House
Officers salaries
Total
1,311
34
121
21
26
14
97
70
$2,456 51
Excess of overdraft over accounts
unexpended
$5,207 86
Respectfully submitted
GEORGE T. HODGMAN
CARL H. HOPKINS
GEORGE E. BOYNTON
Auditor's Report
Selectmen of Camden
Camden, Me., March 1, 1924
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts of the Selectmen and Treasurer and find them
correct with proper vouchers on file.
JOHN L. TEWKSBURY
Town Auditor
Milk Inspector's Report
In the past year I have filled out 91 cards for
licenses and I have visited most of the dairys and
all of them in town. I find most of them in good
condition. The samples sent away were up to standard in butter fat. I have called at the stores and had
them weigh out the butter, some was short but most
of it was up to weight and marking.
RICHARD HAMMOND
Milk Inspector
40
TOWN CLERK'S REPORT
Births: 47. Female 21, Male 26.
Deaths: 54. Female 25, Male 29.
Marriages 57.
Oldest persons died during year: Elisha Richards,
age 94; Harriet Melvin, 93; James R. Norton age
92.
Principal Causes of
eath
Nephritis
Cancer
Heart Diseases
Hardening of Arteries
Pneumonia
10
8
7
6
4
Dogs licensed
Females
Females Spayed
Males
10
14
100
124
Documents recorded in town books
138
Respectfully submiitted
JOHN L. TEWKSBURY
Town Clerk
41
CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Report of Treasurer
Dr.
To cash in treasury, March 1923
$179
Received from state
80
town, appropriation
1,200
town, rent of lot
100
Librarian
42
W. J. Curtis
50
Mrs. Bok, for expenses
600
Friends in Council
173
Monday Club
77
gift
6
Coupons, Dr. Young fund
4
Coupons, Samuel G. Adams
fund
21
85
00
00
00
72
00
00
00
00
00
25
25
$2,534 07
Cr.
By paid Librarian
$376
rent
362
for books, magazines, binding etc 598
janitor service
53
insurance
36
lights
30
cataloging
225
00
50
44
50
61
19
00
42
typewriting
supplies
labor, material and sundries
balance on hand
126
290
129
305
40
28
20
95
$2,534 07
Library Assets in Hands of Treasurer
Liberty bond, Samuel G. Adams fund,
par value
Liberty bond, Dr. W. H. Young fund,
par value
Cash
$500 00
100 00
305 95
$905 95
The "Balance on hand" has been reserved towards paying Library expenses from March 1 to
the time when the new town appropriation becomes
available. The larger than usual expense for cataloging, typewriting, supplies, labor, etc., was due
to the renovation of the rooms and changing from
"closed" to "open shelves," which seems to have
met the approval of the patrons of the institution.
This expense was taken care of by the generosity of
Mrs. Bok as shown above. In addition, an infinite
amount of thought and labor was gratuitously expended in bringing about the present admirable
condition of the library, by members of the Board
of Directors and other interested friends, the value
of which to the library and town cannot be estimated.
REUEL ROBINSON, Treasurer
43
The Librarian's Report
The Library was closed from March 26th,
1923 to August 3rd, 1923 for necessary repairs.
Number of volumes in library March 1923
Number of volumes added by purchase
Number of volumes added by gift
9807
143
120
Total number in library March 1st, 1924 10070
Number of magazines, bound
Largest daily circulation
Smallest daily circulation
Average daily circulation
No. of class books issued during year
No. of juvenile books issued during year
Total number of books issued during year
Number of persons holding cards
Cards re-issued during year
Applications issued during year
16
244
15
68
887
2802
9847
804
!
804
DORIS B. OGIER, Librarian
44
TREASURER'S REPORT
J. Hale Hodgman
1923
Dr.
ar. 1st. To Bal. on hand
F. P. Alexander, tax collector
J. J. Paul, tax 1922
Tax deed 1922
Sewer tax 1917
Central Maine Power snow acct.
John Dolan poor
State of Maine Bank Stock
State of Maine Burial of Soldiers
Soldiers pensions
Public library
3d class highway
Special resolve
Improved roads
Industrial education
School fund
R. R. tax
J. L. Tewksbury, dog tax 1923
Town of Islesboro, poor
Error on order 778
Mrs. John Wadsworth, library lot
State of Maine, patrolled road
J. E. Dailey, R. & B.
Oil Bbls. sold R. & B.
Patterson, crushed stone
$1,521
122,452
2
6
10
36
9
1,120
400
1,020
80
567
868
1,318
1,346
4,890
106
180
25
100
729
10
19
74
44
59
00
00
00
39
33
00
00
00
71
44
16
66
90
63
00
67
60
00
81
00
00
75
45
Ralph Mairs
Kendall Hopkins
Otto Nelson
State of Maine 50-50
City of Rockland
F. L. Kennedy
W. F. Hart
A. B. Outhouse
Leon Crockett
State of Maine, Mother's Aid
C. 0. Montgomery sidewalk
Viola Richards sidewalk
Sylvester Vancicle
Town truck
Town team
Tuition
Opera House Auditorium
Opera House C. A. C.
Opera House, floor
Medical inspection rebate
Industrial education
School repairs acct.
Text Book acct.
Licenses
Revenue tax
21
16
38
50
20
17
25
9
2
90
55
13
10
808
1,124
1,965
930
560
2,305
25
61
112
33
43
216
75
70
00
00
00
92
92
60
50
00
78
99
00
00
02
00
00
00
75
00
63
50
29
00
03
$145,379 20
Cr.
County tax
State tax
State pensions
Dog licenses 1922
Dog licenses 1923
Public Library State fund
$7,659 24
22,482 01
1,020 00
166 00
180 00
80 00
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Tax deeds
Town debt
Interest on Town debt
Stamps etc.
Orders
Cash on hand
475
9,500
4,069
4
99,287
455
00
00
33
35
71
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$145,379 20
Financial Standing March 1st, 1924
Liabilities
Bonded debt due May 1st, 1932
Bonded debt due May 1st, 1933
Bonded debt due Dec. 1st, 1933
Cemetery trust fund note
Notes outstanding
Camden National Bank note to pay
overdrafts
Security Trust Co. Bank'note to pay
overdrafts
Due State of Maine on Union St.
improvement
Coupons
13,000
9,900
25,000
5,000
13,600
00
00
00
00
00
2,500 00
2,500 00
2,000 00
80 00
Corporation
Bonded debt due 1938
Outstanding notes
Outstanding bills your treasurer know:3
about
11,400 00
5,600 00
537 41
$91,117 41
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Resources
Sewer tax 1903
$44
1904
170
1905
141
1906
54
1907
54
1908
55
1910
63
1911
108
1917
37
1918
78
Tuition due from other towns
1,000
State of Maine C. A. C. rent of Opera House
to Jan. 1st.
300
Sylvester Vansycles
40
Tax deeds 1922
369
Tax deeds 1923
475
Asphalt oil and other material R. & B.
1,659
Sewer pipe for Washington St. sewer
462
Central Maine Power Co., snow
82
Total town debt
55
84
54
70
55
30
26
31
54
20
00
00
00
02
00
11
00
65
$5,196 57
$85,920 84
Cemetery Trust Fund
Town of Camden, note
Liberty bonds
Camden National Bank interest d e b t
73 lots bonded for
Bal. in hand of treasurer
$5,000 00
2,000 00
4,080 30
$11,080 30
10,999 50
80 80
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Mr. George Thomas, Chairman
Term expires March 1924
Mrs. Mary Ames
Term expires March 1925
Rev. Ralph H. Hayden Term expires March 1926
Charles E. Lord, Superintendent and Secretary to
the Committee
Special Teachers
Myrtle Bean, Supervisor of Music
Lena Cleveland, Supervisor of Drawing
F. N. Bresnehan, Manual Training.
Edna Ames., Household Arts.
Esther B. Bird, Assistant Drawing
Regular Teachers
Carleton P. Wood, Principal of H. S. Science and
Mathematics.
Bertha S. Clason, Latin & History.
Rose M. Pllsbury, French.
Mabelle A. Small, English.
Helen McCobb, Civics and Mathematics.
Elcey Sawyer, Commercial.
Mary Taylor. 8th grade.
Eva M. Rideout, 7th grade.
Nettie E. Knight, 6th grade.
Ethel T. Staples, 5th grade
T. Lucine Arau, 4th grade.
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Laura W a d s w o r t h , 3d g r a d e .
Evelyn M. Bailey, 2d g r a d e .
Grace Benner, 1st g r a d e & Sub. P r i m a r y .
Mildred H. Gould, Millville, Sub. P., 1st & 2nd
grades
Sara Young, Mansfield, Rural
School Physicians
A. F. Green. M. D.
W. F. H a r t , M. D.
School Nurse
Miss Rose Blake, R. N.
Attendance Officers
Charles G. W e a v e r , George Hopkins.
School Calendar
Second period, W i n t e r t e r m begins M a r c h 3,
closes April 2 5 — 8
Spring Term, begins May 5
closes J u n e 2 0 — 7
Fall Term, begins Sept. 8
closes Dec. 12—14
First period. W i n t e r T e r m begins Dec. 29
closes F e b . 2 0 — 8
Total
weeks
weeks
weeks
weeks
37 weeks
School Holidays
Patriot's Day, April 1 9 ; Memorial Day, May 3 0 ;
Armistice Day, Nov. 1 1 ; Two d a y s at Thanksgiving.
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No School Signals
Four blasts of the Fire Alarm at 7.15 A. M. for no
school in the forenoon. The same signel at 12.15 P.
M. for no school in the afternoon. Four blasts during
the morning session is for one session plan which dismisses the first three grades, 1-2-3, at 11.30 A. M.
and all other grades and the high school at 1 P. M.
Report of School Committee
The School Committee has sought to give to our
schools efficient management, able teachers, and
necessary supplies and equipment. As a board we
feel that we have made a step forward in this direction, by securing the services of our present Superintendent of Schools. The committee inherited a
series of situations and deficits which it has sought
to clear up.
The course of study at the High School has oe'-n
carefully revised under the direction of the Superintendent, and in conjunction with the State authorities, so that the present curriculum is designed
to give our boys and girls a sound preparation in
the various departments.
The deficit reported by the committee is due
to underestimate of past expenses, and a with-hoitiing of bills due, until after previous town meetings
In all departments, a study of the budget for this
year, indicates that there has been an appreciable
advance made in our efforts to live within the appropriations. It may be safely predicted that the
committee, this coming year, will keep within it's
budget if granted it's requests.
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We desire to emphasize the need for co-oper:ition on the part of parents, in securing more attention to study on the part of pupils. The best teachers
in the country, the most perfectly equipped school,
can not fit our boys and girls to meet the standards
of modern education, unless there is co-operation in
the home, and insistence upon a reasonable amount
of study at home.
The committee recommends that the town take
stepslo establish a Sinking Fund, either for a newbuilding, the remodelling of one of the old buildings,
or an addition to one of these we already have.
There is a steady increase in the number of High
School pupils, and the High School Building is already taxed to its capacity. The Elm Street School ia
also full and it is possible to see, that in the nea."
future, plans must be made for enlargement, that
will take the pressure off both buildings.
Your committee feels that a policy of getting
ready to meet the necessary outlay, is the only wise
one under present conditions in the schools and in
the town.
Respectfully submitted
GEORGE H. THOMAS
MARY C. AMES
RALPH H. HAYDEN
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Estimate of School Budget
March 1, 1924 to F e b . 28, 1925
School Fund
Elementary
Teachers
$11,625
Janitors
1,048
Conveyance
1,812
Fuel
1,000
Secondary
Teachers
$10,170
Janitor
846
Fuel
1,300
Text Books a n d Supplies
2,000
Overdrafts
1,426
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
03
$31,227 03
State funds, estimated
Tuitions, estimated
$5,000 00
2,000 00
$7,000 00
Necessary a p p r o p r i a t i o n
24,227 03
Repairs
Estimated for r e p a i r s
$2,000 00
Estimated insurance increase 500 00
Necessary a p p r o p r i a t i o n
Industrial Education
Teachers
$2,390 00
Other expenses
510 00
$2,500 00
$2,900 00
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Estimated state funds
Necessary appropriation
1,500 00
1,400 00
Medical Inspection
Necessary appropriation
200 00
Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the Superintending School Committee and Citizens of Camden:
I herewith submit my annual report as Superintendent of the Public Schools of the town of Camden. This is the thirty-third in the series and the first
by the present Superintendent.
The most serious problem of our public schools
today is that of adequate financial support. As a nation we are paying the bills of a great war and we
are just beginning to recover from a period of depression. We are weighed down with the burden of
taxation. Together with everything else, the cost of
ducation has constantly increased. Ais in all such
times retrenchment is in the air. After the Civil War
a similar condition existed and public education had
a tremendous setback. It is for us today to see to it
that our children in their preparation for life, are
not made to pay the price of the war.
It is true that taxes are higher; it is true that
tax payers are seriously considering curtailment in
expenditures; it is also true that as a nation we
spend more on luxuries in one year than for education in one hundred years and no doubt Camden
spends her proportionate share. It is equally evident
that this is no period in which to handicap our children for they will need all the preparation that we
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can give them to solve the problems they will be
called upon to face.
It is merely- a question today of how we desire
to spend our money.
Public education is the most important undertaking of any community. No extravagances should
be allowed and proper return should be required for
every expenditure, but we must not take any backward steps. Our children and the civilization which
they must carry on are worth all that we do for them,
all that they cost us.
The School Committee is directly elected by
the voters and directly responsible to them.
They
spend weeks in careful preparation of the budget
and always reduce it to the limit of safety. While
the budget for next year calls for appropriations in
excess of last year, yet we feel that it is as low as
can be made to maintain the high standard in our
schools.
There is only one town in Knox county with a
lower tax rate than Camden and that is only one
mill lower, also Camden has the next to the lowest
school rate of taxation of any town in the county.
I speak of this simply for comparison.
I have no doubt but that Camden's school system is on a solid basis and much good constructive
work has been done. I find that, as in most towns
without a kindergarten, children too young for formal school work are at school, and our problem with
them is a serious one. Camden needs a teacher especially prepared for kindergarten-primary education. If I could have only one trained teacher I would
place her with the beginners. I hope the time is not
far distant when we can have real kindergarten
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work in our schools, for this part of our education
is one of the most important, if not the most important part of the whole school system.
We are fortunate to have the cooperation of the
District Nurse's Association of Camden in the work
of a school nurse. Miss Blake is starting the Health
Work in our schools in an efficient manner and with
our plans for the coming year we shall be able to
do real constructive work.
The Lawrence E. Chapman Medals
Mrs. Mary Winslow Dunton Chapman has offered two silver medals to be known as the Lawrence
E. Chapman Medals, one for a girl and one for a
boy in the eighth grade who are chosen winners in
a Sight Reading Contest to be given annually each
spring. This is in memory of Mrs. Chapman's son,
'^awrence. The School Committee has accepted the
proposition and will see that the contest is carried
out according to the request of Mrs. Chapman.
Parent-Teacher Association
The town of Camden is following the most progressive towns of the country in fostering the spirit
of cooperation between the homes and the schools.
With the moral support and backing of the parents
and citizens interested in education, our teachers
are able to accomplish more for our schools. The
association meets once each month from October
to May, programs are prepared and the teachers
have an opportunity to get acquainted with the citizens and talk over problems and needs of i\v.
schools It is earnestly hoped that all citizens inter-
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ested in Camden Schools will join and attend these
meetings.
Finances
I regret that it has been necessary to report
overdrafts in all the school accounts. Had the regular School Fund account been budgeted last spring
it would have been evident that the resources would
not take care of the expenditures. The fact that we
have to pay for two fifths of the year at the present
rate is often overlooked in making estimates. We
received from the state funds over eight hundred
dollars less this year than was estimated.
We
hardly know what to estimate for state funds any
year and we never know what they are to be until
December when the accounts are nearly ready to
close.
We found this fall that the roof and chimneys
at the high school building had to be repaired at
once, this accounts in a large measure for the overdraft in the repair account. Following the requirements of the State Inspectors we have had to add to
the equipment in the Domestic Science and Manual
Training departments.
We are presenting a budget of our accounts for
next year for your consideration and we firmly believe that we can keep within the amounts named.
I invite your attention to the reports of the High
School Principal and the Special Teachers which follow.
I consider it a privilege to be associated as Superintendent with a School Committee and a body of
Teachers who so fully appreciate and so conscien-
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tiously discharge their obligations to the children of
Camden.
Respectfully submitted
CHARLES E. LORD
Superintendent of Schools
Financial Statement
Resources
Balance,, Common School Account,
1923
$ 680 89
Appropriation, Common
Schools
9,500 00
State Aid
4,890 90
Appropriation, High School 9,000 00
Tuition
1,965 00
Physical Training Account
350 00
Appropriation, Text Book
Account
2,000 00
Balance, Text Book Account,
1923
27 70
Books and Supplies Sold
32 29
$28,446 78
Expenditures
Teaching Common schools 11,353 00
Fuel, Common schools
1,048 44
Janitors, Common schools
1,060 00
Conveyance Common
Schools
1,812 00
Teaching High school
9,240 00
Fuel, High school
1,289 40
Janitor, High school
832 00
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Supplies for Laboratory
3 39
Overdraft, 1923, High school
account
949 25
Text books and supplies
2,285 33
$29,872 81
1,426 03
Amount overdrawn
Repairs and Incidental Account
Resources
Appropriation 1923
$2,000 00
Rent, Megunticook Grange to
March 1, 1924
112 50
$2,112 50
Expenditures
Repairing High school
roof
Repairing High school
chimneys
Repairs at the Grange
Installing fire alarm at
Elm St.
Bldg.
$320 97
Bldg.
253 12
Bldg.
36 73
H. S. &
157 32
768 14
All other expenses including
insurance
2,181 10
$2,949 24
Amount overdrawn
836 74
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Industrial Education Account
Resources
Appropriation 1923
State Aid
Machine sold
Material sold
$1,600
1,346
20
41
00
66
00
63
$3,008 29
Expenditures
Paid for teaching
Paid for other expenses
$2,663 79
1,042 92
$3,706 71
Amount overdrawn
$698 42
Physical Education Account
Resources
Amount unexpended 1923
$510 00
Expenditures
Paid F. N. Bresnehan
$160 00
Transferred to H. S. Account 350 00
$510 00
Medical Inspection Account
Resources
Appropriation 1923
$200 00
From Dr. A. F. Green, overpaid 25 00
$225 00
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Expenditures
To A. F. Green, M. D.
services
$125 00
To W. F. Hart, M. D.
services
125 00
$225 00
High School Account
C. O. Turner
Carleton P. Wood
Bertha Clason
Rose M. Pillsbury
Mabelle A. Small
Ethel Gleason
Elcey Sawyer
Helen McCobb
Francis Bresnehan
Teaching
$1,000
$1,920
1,500
1,400
1,400
400
690
690
240
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
$9,240 00
Fuel
P. G. Willey & Co.
$425 00
Camden Yacht Bldg. & Ry.
864 40
$1,289 40
Janitor
Charles G. Weaver
Supplies
American Railway Express
Charles W. Sheldon
$832 00
94
2 45
$3 39
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Teaching, C. S.
Mary Taylor
Eva Rideout
Nettie Knight
Ethel Staples
T. Lucine Arau
Laura Wadsworth
Evelyn M. Bailey
Grace M. Benner
Mildred H. Gould
Sara Young
Lena F. Cleveland
Edith Healey
Esther Bird
Myrtle E. Bean
Mrs. Alton French
$1,300
1,100
1,100
1,000
1,000
960
930
930
1,000
800
450
15
135
625
8
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
$11,353 00
Fuel, C. S.
William Warren
Camden Yacht Bldg & Ry.
George Jordan
F. W. Day
George W. Prescott
P. G. Willey & Co.
Chas. Stevens
C. Y. Bldg. & Ry.
2
34
5
11
137
806
33
18
00
70
00
24
00
75
75
00
$1,048 44
Janitors C. S.
George A. Hopkins
Paul Start
$722 00
24 00
62
W . G. W a d s w o r t h
Sara Young
270 00
44 00
$1,060 00
Conveyance C. S.
H a r o l d H. Nash
Charles McKinley
Willis P . Young
Main Street G a r a g e
$1,009
396
380
27
00
00
00
00
$1,812 00
Text Books Account
Ginn & Company
W. M. W e l c h Mfg. Co.
Milton Bradley Co.
Silver, B u r d e t t & Co.
F. E. Morrow
Pauline Emery
Little, Brown & Co.
Spragues Journal
The MacMillan Co.
D. C. H e a t h & Co.
D e n o y e r - G e p p e r t Co.
The Village Shop
H o w a r d & Brown
J. L. H a m m e t t Co.
S t a r k e y & Toner
American Book Co.
A m e r i c a n Railway Express
E d w a r d E. Babb & Co.
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Loring, Short & H a r m o n
$257
18
272
319
12
10
6
2
67
240
14
8
33
65
73
357
2
91
39
18
05
54
58
37
00
50
96
00
55
17
72
52
40
39
22
49
92
50
94
30
63
Central Maine Power Co.
Allyn & Bacon
Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge
J. B. Lippincott Co.
Modern School Supply Co.
Keystone View Co.
Scott, Foresman Co.
Maine Public Health
The Phonographic Inst.
Kee Lox Manf. Co.
World Book Company
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
The Plymouth Press
Charles E. Merrill Co.
Laidlaw Brothers
The Gregg Pub. Co.
The A. N. Palmer Co.
Portland Directory
Camden Pub. Co.
Reuel Robinson
3
104
2
14
37
51
39
30
36
53
41
50
06
57
89
1 22
20 00
27 15
2 37
17 11
1 59
22 92
2 44
9 74
8 00
4 05
3 00
$2,285 53
Repairs Account
Central Maine Power Co.
Orient Spray Co.
Charles N. Smart
Farmers Union
Richard Hammond
F. W. Day
Starkey & Toner, Inc.
Masury, Young Co.
Royal Typewriter Co.
George E. Allen
$126
50
20
8
2
1
150
65
11
182
45
09
25
00
50
00
03
89
00
42
64
Talbot Insurance Company
247 08
J. Hale Hodgman
33 75
George Jordan
7 00
N. F. Talbot
1 50
New England Tel. & Tel. Co. 66 49
J. C. Curtis, Inc.
217 36
Bay View Garage
1 50
Hanley Music Company
8 40
H. Heistad
99 00
R. W. Tibbetts
1 00
0. P. Chapin
395 27
George Hopkins
14 50
Mrs. Hattie Fish
25 12
Mrs. W. C. Macdonald
2 45
Mrs. Lula MacEachern
28 17
Blanch Andrews
30 80
Kenneth P. Herrick
18 00
Cotrell & Leonard
70 00
Emilo E. Hary
18 00
C. B. Dolge Co.
70 60
W. G. Wadsworth
30 20
American Railway Express
7 82
Charles E. Gray
7 00
Smith System of Heating
13 00
Mark W. Ingraham
15 81
L. 0 . Gross
30 16
Cornelius Gray
35 00
F. T. Simpson
4 69
Underwood Typewriter Co.
4 50
J. C. Grey
3 38
James Morse
14 50
The Theodor Kuntz Co.
94 50
W. P. Young
8 00
George Gardiner
4 00
65
Brown & Hobbs
Knowlton Brothers
C. K. Hopkins
A. H. Parsons
0. S. Robbins
E. G. Young
Carleton Pascal Company
W. C. Howe
2
6
83
242
12
346
5
3
86
20
97
45
06
69
08
75
$2,949 24
Industrial Education Account
F. N. Bresnehan, teaching $1,600 00
Edna Ames, teaching
1,063 79
Camden Lumber Company
349 91
L. E. Young
4 40
Camden Anchor-Rockland Machine
Co.
4 30
A. S. Prince
9 69
226 02
Mark W. Ingraham
Handicraft Shop
16 41
The Village Shop
10 57
J. C. Curtis, Inc.
11 90
14 82
Fred W. Elwell
83
Allen's Market
J. H. Brewster
153 40
187 17
Carleton, Pascal Co.
6 50
The Manual Arts Press
2 50
The Bruce Publishing Co.
The Inland Printer Co.
4 00
The Neddie Craft Magazine
30
Mrs. Edna Ames
60
2 25
Arthur T. White
Grand Rapids Furniture Rec ord 3 00
66
Chandler's Pharmacy
3
Brown & Hobbs
23
Camden Publishing Co.
2
J. B. Lippincott
2
M. E. Bartlett
1
Camden Yacht Bldg. & Ry. Co.
D. A. Dougherty & Son
20
35
50
50
65
40
75
$3,706 71
School Statistics
Number of people of school age in the
town April 1, 1923, boys
377
girls
364
Total enrollment, Elementary schools
Total enrollment, Secondary school
397
194
591
Total
Total expenses, excluding Repairs and
dustrial Education
$28,911 56
48 92
Cost per pupil
34
Tuition pupils in the high school
Number of pupils enrolled in the Industrial Department
170
$3,706
71
Total expenses Industrial Department
21 80
Cost per pupil
Report of Principal of Camden High School
To Charles E. Lord, Superintendent of Schools:
I respectfully submit my first annual report as
principal of Camden High School.
The high school opened Sept. 10 with an enrollment of 194 which is the highest registration the
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school has ever had. Of this number 95 were boys
and 99 girls. As always happens in a school of this
size, some have left to go to work, others have moved away and have been transferred to other schools.
We have had the misfortune of losing two of our
number by death. Dorothy Plummer after an illness
of several months, died Jan. 15. Clarence Collemer
died Jan. 29, after an illness of a few days.
There have not been many changes in the high
school teaching force over last year. The high school
faculty now consists of:
Carlton P. Wood, Principal—Chemistry, Plane
Geometry, Advanced Algebra, Biology and General
Science.
Miss Bertha S. Clason—Latin, Ancient and American History.
Miss Mabelle A. Small—English 1, 3 and 4.
Miss Rose M. Pillsbury—French, English 2, and
Solid Geometry.
Miss Elcey Sawyer—-Commercial Branches.
Miss Helen G. McCobb—Freshman Algebra, Rev.
Math., Civics and Commercial Arithmetic.
Mrs. Edna Ames—Domestic Science.
Mr. Francis N. Bresnehan—Manual Training and
Athletics.
There is ever present a cooperative spirit among
the teachers and as a result we hope thereby to raise
the standard of the school. This is necessary in most
any high school at the present time in order for its
pupils to be prepared to go on after completing the
high school course.
Scholarship is the one big thing which we are
trying to encourage. For this end, the 90 per cent
method of exemption from examination has been
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introduced, the honor system of marks, and seal
plan. The first of these is self-explanatory. The second means that if a pupil receives a grade of 95 or
more in all subjects for a quarter, that it places him
in the "high honor" group, if he receives a grade of
85 or more in all subjects, this places him in the
"honor" group. By the "seal plan" is meant that if
a pupil gets an average of 95 per cent or more for
the four years, he shall receive a gold seal on his
diploma. If he gets an average of 85 per cent or more
for the four years, he shall receive a silver seal.
We have found that in the past some pupils
have gone out from the school without completing
the required amount of work. This is not going to
happen this year and although it may cause some
hard feeling, those who are below have been properly warned We feel, that in the end, it is for their
own good and for the betterment of the school.
At the present time, the scientific course seems
to be most popular, having enrolled in it the largest
number of pupils. The college preparatory ranks
next, then the commercial and last of all, the general
course.
Many of our classes are two large to accomodate at once which necessitates dividing them into
two divisions. As a result of this, four of the regular
teachers have classes at least six periods out of the
seven each day. Consequently none of them have the
time for the necessary supervision of study.
When school opened this fall, the Athletic Association was in debt about $450. But through the
cooperation of the teachers and student body, that
deficit has been made up and enough new bills so
that the entire expenditures of the association up to
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the present time since Sept. 10 is $1156.89. All bills
are paid and we have an unused balance of $135.
The football season was a success, both in
respect to the schools with whom we competed and
also from a financial standpoint. The basket ball
season, thus far, has been very successful for both
the boys' and girls' teams.
Our school is to take part in the triangular
debates, conducted by Bates College, competing with
Rockland and Thomaston. These debates are to be
held March 14th.
There has been some question as to the standing of the high school. In this connection, I will say
that the school is on the list approved by the New
England College Entrance Certificate Board. This
expires Dec. 31, 1924 but a request has already been
sent in for the approval of the Board to be extended
over another period of three years.
In closing, I wish to say, to all who have cooperated for better schools and for the support of
teachers, superintendent, and school committee, I
am very grateful.
Faithfully submitted
CARLTON P. WOOD, Principal.
Mr. Charles E. Lord, Supt. of schools, Camden, Me.
Dear Mr. Lord:
The following is my report in drawing:
The fundamentals in teaching drawing from
year to year remain about the same, and although
classes change in individuals it is interesting to note
that the attitude of the different ages of pupils re-
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mains about the same.
In the lower grades the subject is received with
enthusiasm, in the upper grades this enthusiasm
changes to serious application and in High School
where drawing is elective and the programs sometimes crowded the drawing classes usually consist
of those who have a distinct liking for the subject
and also definite ability. All little children grasp with
joy the opportunity to make and represent things
with their hands. This opportunity, drawing, picture
making, gives them. In drawing flowers, fruit and
trees is established a bond between them and nature a relationship that is already very close. They,
also like to represent life, with which they themselves are bubbling over. This ardent enthusiasm I
greet with encouragement and although the people
that are drawn, and the birds and the animals, are
more or less crude. I feel that the impetus thus gained of making the subject a live one, is of value.
As the grades grow older this wholesale drawing of everything gives place to more technical
work. Due emphasis is given to the classification
of form and its representation, the relationship of
color and the principles of design. And through it all
I strive to keep alive the seeds of enthusiasm, imagination and creative ability with which the little
people seem to be naturally endowed. This native
enthusiasm joined with habits of painstaking work
is the source to which we may look for progress
in the future world of invention, science and art.
The work in the High School is progressing
successfully under the able leadership of Mrs. Adriel
Bird.
Very truly yours
LENA F. CLEVELAND
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Music
To the Superintendent of Schools:
Dear Sir: I herewith submit my annual report on
music in the schools of Camden.
The course of study is necessarily much the
same as last year, but more individual work is being done in the first three grades.
In the first grade the first half year is devoted
to "rote songs" and the latter half of the year the
familiar songs are sung with syllables to establish
a feeling for tonality.
In the second grade "rote songs" still constitute a large part of the work, but the visualization
drills are of great importance as they prepare the
children for the sight-reading which comes in the
third grade. In this grade a greater independence is
required of the children.
Tone, Time and Theory drills, intended to familiarize the children with the staff, key and time
signatures, notes, rests etc., begin in the fourth
grade.
In grade five two-part singing is introduced
and interpretation begun.
The sixth and seventh grades are taught scale
building and three part singing is introduced in the
sixth grade and continued through the remaining
grades.
In the High School this year we are using the new
High School Song Book by Gertrude B. Parsons.
It contains a splendid collection of part songs and
choruses, selections from the operas, patriotic songs
etc.
The Girls Glee Club, organized last year, has
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thirty members and is doing splendid work. Rehearsals are held every two weeks, and a cantata is
being studied in connection with several two and
three part choruses.
The school orchestra rehearses one hour each
week, and this year we have eighteen members. An
orchestra must be built from the ground up, and
like any other structure, it will stand or fall according to whether it be built upon a rock or upon the
sands. And one cannot expect to bring a number of
players together, at once presenting a finished ensemble musical body to the public, especially in
these smaller towns where advantages have tended
to limit musical appreciation; but even against such
odds our boys and girls have worked faithfully and
enthusiastically and my only regret is that more
are not given private instruction on some orchestral
instrument.
Respectfully submitted
MYRTLE E. BEAN
Feb. 15, 1924
To The Superintendent of Schools:
I hereby submit my report for the school year
1923-24 concerning the Department of Manual
Training.
Our enrollment this year has been larger than
in preceeding years and in order to avoid crowding
of classes it was decided to make divisions in the
7th and 8th grades and also in the Freshman class.
This gives two sections to each class and enables the
boys to get more individual teaching than in the old
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way.
Woodworking is the most popular subject
taught and the boys from the 7th grade to the Senior class in High School are taught the use of tools,
how to handle them, the use of wood etc. Through
to the art of cabinet work. The 7th grades who first
start are an unknown quantity; while after finishing
their required course they are able to apply their
experience to good use.
Mechanical Drawing and Printing are taught
to those who desire to take either of these subjects.
Mechanical Drawing is given by the instructor to the
grades and high school freshmen, as part of their
regular work.
Printing is taken only by those who desire it.
School work for the most part is done in this subject. When a boy has finished his course he has a
solid foundation on which to progress in the industry of printing.
I have tried this year to give each boy a certain
amount of practical work. This means work that a
person will find in every day life. It gives the boy an
idea of things he will be required to do out in the
world.
In making suggestions I advise more floor and
working space for Manual Training. The equipment
is old and must be replaced soon. It would be a wonderful thing if one or two woodworking machines
could be put in to help out the equipment trouble.
Respectfully
F. N. BRESNEHAN
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Domestic Science
To Charles E. Lord, Superintendent of Schools:
Dear Sir: I herewith submit my fourth annual
report regarding the work in the Domestic Science
Department.
The outline of work in both cooking and sewing
has been much the same as in the last three years.
The change which was made last year, viz: first half
year cooking second half year sewing, has been a
great help in the amount of work accomplished.
This department has been given some new
equipment this year, viz: three new "standard"
sewing machines and two new four burner oil stoves
with four ovens, two for each stove. These have
been much appreciated and much in use, especially
the sewing machines. The stove will get extra work
the last half of the year.
The department also has had some new reference books and magazines which were necessary for
the betterment of good work.
Parents and friends have shown greater interest in the department than in former years, especially when the evening school was in session.
Respectfully submitted
EDNA AMES
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TOWN WARRANT
STATE OF MAINE
KNOX, SS.
To William S. Dyer, a constable in the Town of Camden in
the County of Knox.
Greeting:
In the name of the State of Maine, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said Town
of Camden, qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to assemble at the Opera House Building in said town, on Monday
the 10th day of March, A. D. 1924, at nine o'clock in the
forenoon, to act on the following articles, to wit:
1. To elect a moderator to preside over said meeting.
2. To hear and act upon the reports of the town officials.
3. To see if the town will vote to instruct the selectmen
to appoint a road commissioner or commissioners.
4. To elect by ballot a road commissioner.
5. To elect by secret ballot, three selectmen, assessors
and overseers of the poor, town clerk, member of the school
committee, town treasurer, tax collector and auditor.
6. To see if the town will vote to instruct the selectmen
to appoint a night watch.
7. To elect by ballot a night watch.
8. To see if the town will vote to elect a committee of
citizens, representing all sections of the town, said committee
to include the selectmen, treasurer, superintendent of schools,
which committee shall investigate and consider all parts of
the warrant, especially those calling for appropriations, make
recommendations concerning each, and submit a report at the
next annual town meeting; and if so to elect the same.
9. To see what sum of money the town will vote to raise
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for the repair and construction of roads, bridges and sidewalks, for the ensuing year, and how the same shall be raised.
10. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for breaking roads and removing snow for the ensuing
year and how the same shall be raised.
11. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for the support of the poor for the ensuing year and
how the same shall be raised.
12. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to defray incidental expenses and how the same shall be
raised.
13. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for elementary and secondary schools including teachers'
wages and board, fuel, janitors' services, conveyance, tuition
and board of pupils, text-books, reference books and school
supplies for desk or laboratory use, and how the same shall be
raised.
14. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for salary of the superintendent of schools, and how
the same shall be raised.
15. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for the repair and insurance of schoolhouses, and how
the same shall be raised.
16. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for industrial education and how the same shall be
raised.
17. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for medical inspection in our public schools, and how
the same shall be raised.
18. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to pay interest on the town debt, and how the same
shall be raised.
19. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to pay on the town debt, and how the same shall be
raised.
20. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to pay the expenses of the fire department, and how the
same shall be raised.
21. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for hydrant service and how the same shall be raised.
22. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
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raise for street lighting and how the same shall be raised.
23. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for street sprinkling and how the same shall be raised.
24. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for the Camden Public Library, and how the same shall
be raised.
25. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for the care of the cemetery, and how the same shall be
raised.
26. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to help pay the expenses of the Geo. S. Cobb Post, G.
A. E. on Memorial Day.
27. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to help pay the expenses of the Arey-Heal Post, American Legion on Memorial Day.
28. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to pay for care of the Library lot.
29. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for construction and repair of sidewalks, and how the
same shall be raised.
30. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise for Mother's Aid for the ensuing year, and how the
same shall be raised.
31. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to pay outstanding bills, and how the same shall be
raised.
32. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to spray or otherwise protect shade trees, and how the
same shall be raised.
33. To see what sum of money the town will vote to
raise to pay the salaries of town officials for the ensuing year,
and how the same shall be raised.
34. To see if the town will vote to authorize the treasurer and selectmen to negotiate temporary loans in anticipation of the payment of taxes, not to exceed the aggregate sum
of twenty-two thousand dollars; said loans to be obtained from
time to time during the fiscal year, as needed, and at as low
rates of discount as possible.
35. To see if the town will vote to instruct the selectmen to appoint three of the summer residents to act in an
advisory capacity with the selectmen and road commissioner
pertaining to expenditure of money on roads.
36. To see if the town will vote to rebuild and enlarge
the brook across Chestnut St. near Frye St.; what sum of
money it will vote to raise for this purpose, and how the same
shall be raised.
37. To see what action the town will take to re-surface
Bay View St. from Bay View Garage to Camden Yacht Club,
and also to repair the Causeway across Bay View St. near
Brown & Hobbs' mill.
38. To see if the town will vote to pay C. E. Litchfield
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the balance for services as engineer on survey and report of
roads in 1922.
39. To see what action the town will take to dispose of
standing wood on Hosmer Pond privilege lot.
40. To see what action the town will take in regard to
a re-valuation of property for assessment.
41. To see if the town will vote to build a concrete sidewalk on Jacobs Ave. a distance of 500 feet from Belmont Ave.
horn much money it will vote to raise for said purpose and
how the same shall be raised.
42. To see what action the town will take in regard to
the construction of the sewer voted to be built on Washington
Street beginning at or near the residence of Eugene Bracey
and connecting with the town sewer near Felton's store; how
much money it will raise in connection with the same and how
the same shall be raised.
43. To see if the town will vote to accept a road in the
Town of Camden, Maine, as now laid out and completely built
as a part of "Rawson Ave.," bounded and described as follows: beginning at a granite post in westerly line of Rawson
Ave. as now laid out and accepted as a town road, at upper
corner of lot formerly of N. A. Tiffany, now of Alfred Duffel;
thence N. 5 degrees W. one hundred thirty one feet and two
inches (131 feet-2 inches) over land of Mrs. C. B. Borland,
to corner of lot of Lena May Dow; thence same course over
land of Evelyn L. Heal four hundred and one feet and six
inches (401 feet-6 inches) to corner of land formerly of John
N. Ames; thence same course thirty two feet and four inches
(32 feet-4 inches) to angle in road; thence N. 66 degrees E.
four hundred forty five feet and ten inches (445 feet10 inches) to corner of lot of Harold Kaler; thence same
course along Kaler line one hundred seventy six feet and
four inches (176 feet-4 inches) to hub on west side of Megunticook River north side of "Kenniston's Bridge"; thence N.
60% degrees E. crossing river, fifty six feet (56 feet) to hub
on east side of river; thence N. 61 degrees E. two hundred and
one feet and three inches (201 feet-3 inches) more or less,
to hub in west line of Washington St.; this to be the westerly
and northerly line of said road and the road to be forty feet
(40 feet) wide; no damages to be claimed or allowed.
44. To see if the town will vote to build 140 feet of
cement side walk on Highland Ave. in front of residence of
O. H. Emery, one half of the expense to be taken from sidewalk appropriation and one half of the expense to be p<*id by
O. H. Emery.
45. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of
$500 towards defraying the expenses of the District Nurse,
and how the same shall be raised.
46. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of
$300 to be spent under the direction of the Camden Board cf
Trade, for road signs, danger signs, information pamphlets
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and mountain trail signs, and how the same shall be raised.
47. To see if the town will vote to construct a rock ar.d
ash sidewalk on Limerock street as far as Colcord Ave.
48. To see if the town will vote to build a sewer along
Harding Avenue, the proportion the town will pay therefor,
and what shall be paid by the abbutting owners; what sum
shall be raised therefor, and how the same shall be raised.
49. To see if the town will vote to dredge out the
channel along the front of the wharves on the westerly side
of the harbor where the sewer drain has filled in; what sum
it will vote to raise for this purpose and how the same shall
be raised.
50. To see what action the town will take to abate so
much of the taxes on properties of J. W. Ingraham as were
based on overvaluation.
51. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer on
Cedar St. a distance of 347 feet from Bay View St.; how much
money it will raise for that purpose and how the same shall be
raised.
52. To see if the town will vote to place two incandescent street lights on Pearl St., between Oak and John Sts.
53. To see if the town will vote to place an incandescent
street light on Harding Ave.
54. To see if the town will vote to place three incandescent street lights on Mountain Street between the cemetery
and the residence of J. S. Gould.
55. To see if the town will vote to establish a sinking
fund for a new school building; how much money it will raise
for that purpose and how the same shall be raised.
56. To see what action the town will take relative to
exempting from taxation for a term of years, a proposed new
building and machinery therein, to be added to the plant of
the Seabright Woven Felt Co.
57. To see if the town will vote to raise the sum of three
thousand dollars or any other sum to be expended on the improvement of Mountain Street and the Mountain Street sidewalk, and how the same shall be raised.
58. To see if the town will vote to discontinue that part
of the old Penobscot steamboat wharf road which lays southerly from Limerock Street extension.
59. To see if the town will vote to build an overflow
drain to take care of excess water on Union St. as follows:
starting at corner of Union and School Sts. near residence of
Mrs. Geo. Andrews, thence southerly on Belmont Ave. across
lot of Fred Farnsworth, across Whitmore Ave., across land of
Joseph Regnier and into brook, a distance of 350 feet, more or
less, with a catch basin on Belmont Ave. in front of residence
of Fred Farnsworth; how much money it will raise for said
purpose and how the same shall be raised.
60. To see if the town will vote to widen the water
course across Belmont Ave. near the residence of N. H. Ben-
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nett, how much money it will raise for said purpose, and how
the same shall be raised.
61. To see if the town will vote to buy four new snow
plows for sidewalks; how much money it will raise for said
purpose, and how the same shall be raised.
62. To see if the town will vote to authorize and instruct the School Board to turn over control and management of athletic field during summer vacation to Camden
Athletic Club.
63. To see if the town will vote to raise two hundred
and fifty dollars to repair grandstand on athletic field.
64. To see if the town will vote to raise money to construct a cement sidewalk on Elm street from J. H. Montgomery's to R. W. Jamieson's.
65. To see if the town will vote to build a sewer on
Sand St. connecting with the Washington St. sewer, a distance
of about 250 ft.; how much money it will raise for said purpose, and how the same shall be raised.
66. To see if the town will vote to have poll taxes due
and payable on the first day of May as provided in Sec. 85
of Chapt. 10. R. S.
67. To see if the town will vote to repair or resurface
Chestnut St. from near Frye St. to the residence of Miss
Sophia Smart, or to rebuild the link left unfinished over this
route; what sum of money it will raise for said purpose, and
how the same shall be raised.
68. To see if the town will appropriate and raise the
sum of $1333.00 for the improvement of the section of State
Aid Road as outlined in the report of the State Highway
Commission, in addition to the amount regularly raised for the
care of the ways, highways and bridges; the above amount
being the maximum which the town is allowed to raise under
the provisions of Sec. 18, Chapt. 25, R. S.
69. To see if the town will vote "yes" or "no" on the
question of having "Daylight Saving Time" during the summer of 1924, the dates to be fixed by the Selectmen.
70. To see if the town will vote to maintain a public
dumping place on the property of the Camden Yacht Building & Railway Co.; how much money it will raise for said
purpose and how the same shall be raised.
The selectmen give notice that they will be in session for
the purpose of correcting the voting list, Sat. March 8th, 1924,
from 2.00 P. M. to 5.00 P. M.
The polls will be open for voting Mar. 10th, from 9.00
A. M., to 2.00 P. M.
Given under our hands this twenty-ninth day of February,
A. D. 1924.
G. T. HODGMAN
CARL H. HOPKINS
GEO. E. BOYNTON
Selectmen of Town of Camden